13/07/2026
"Exquisite" — great review of Sarah Fox's new Mozart Concert Arias album on Signum Records! Congrats to Sarah, conductor Roberto Fores Veses and the Orquesta Sinfonica de Castilla y Leon!
"As one might expect, Fox's singing is consistently lovely, with the familiar silvery gleam in her upper registers much in evidence, though there's warmth lower in the voice when it's needed. Of the two arias derived from Idomeneo, the high-lying Non più! Tutto ascoltai suits her fractionally better, though the descents below middle C in Ch'io mi scordi di te? are admirably accomplished. Coloratura is expressive and unshowy: the ebb and flow of the elaborate lines of Per quel paterno amplesso, K79, particularly impress...Listen again, and you become increasingly aware of Fox's verbal subtlety. The reiterations of 'Morirò' in Al desio di chi t'adora really bite in her lower registers, and 'Stelle barbare, stelle spietate' in Non più! Tutto ascoltai gradually gains in intensity with each repetition. Nebmt meinen Dank, meanwhile, is exquisite in its unforced simplicity... a fine album, thoughtful and enjoyable in equal measure."
